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JOHN E. SEAVEY, OF KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND S. E. BRYANT.

Letters Patent No. 64,913, dated Zlfagj 21, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN TIP-GART-BODY FASTENINGS.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be itknown that I, JOHN E. SEAVEY, of Kennebunkport, in the county of York, and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Tip-Cart-Body Fastening; and I do her-eh declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a. top view.

Figure 2, a front elevation.

Figure 3, a. side elevation, and

Figure 4, a longitudinal and vertical section of it, as it appears when applied to the thill-bar and body of a. cart.

In the drawings, A is an arm, provided with a weight, a, at one end, 21 ml an eccentric, b, at the other, they being formed and arranged as represented. There is a hole, a, made horizontally through the eccentric, such hole being for the reception of a, yoke, B, whose two ends are bent at right angles and inserted in staples d 01, which are to go into the thill-bar C, or other proper part of a cart. A hearing, D, curved on its upper side, as shown in figs. 3 and 4, to receive the eccentric, operates with the latter, and is projected from the body E of the tip-cart so as to extend from the yoke, in manner as shown in the drawings, when the eccentric is resting in thebca-ring, the whole being so that the eccentric and the yoke, by turning the arm A up into a vertical position, or thereabonts, may be swung ofi' the bearing and down into the position represented by dotted lines in fig. 3. When the eccentric is off the bearing the cart body will be free to be tipped back, but when the eccentric is on the bearing, and the arm A is in the position as shown in figs. 3 and i, the cart body will be secure]; held from being tipped back. The weight of the arm operates to prevent the eccentric from being accidentally revolved. The eccentric, by its pressure on the bearing, serves to prevent the cart body from jolting on the thills.

I claim, as my invention the cart-body fastener, made substantially in the manner, and for the purpose, and to operate as specified; it being composed of the weighted arm A, the eccentric b, the yoke B, and the bearing D, formed and arranged as explained.

JOHN E. SEAVEY.

Witnessesi F. P. HALE, Jr., .R. H. EDDY. 

